Can You Really Let Food Be Your Medicine?

1. Modern farming practices have drained the soils of nutrients so we need chemical fertilizers which do not provide the same kind of nutrition.
2. Now you need 10 times the servings of fruits and vegetables compared to just 50 years ago to get the same level of nutrients.
3. Shipping and long storage times leads to even further loss of nutrients.
4. The addition of pesticides and chemical additives causes toxic build up which leads to sickness.

Now we also have intensively farmed and genetically modified (GMO) crops. These new frankenstein crops are getting harder and harder for people to digest.

How Do You Know What To Eat?

With shocking discoveries like this about our diets and food supply daily you just don’t know what is left to eat. This leads to the rise in popularity of ‘miracle’ diet plans, vitamins and nutritional supplements.

Many people tout their diet plan as being the miraculous solution to all your problems.

From the gluten free diet... to the caveman diet... to the raw vegan diet... to the alkaline diet... it seems you can not go 6 months without hearing of the latest diet promising the ultimate in health.

Except...

Not All Diets Are Created Equal

There is no one-size fits all when it comes to diets.

Often these diets are expensive, difficult to follow (especially around a busy lifestyle) and they sometimes make you feel worse.

If a diet is going to work for you it needs to be easy to do, not take up too much time or money and also be backed up by legitimate scientific research.

After all, the wrong diet leads to poor nutrition; which is also linked to an increased risk of many diseases, including cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.

Should You Take Nutritional Supplements For Health?

The human diet requires both macro-nutrients, which are the main source of calories, and micro-nutrients (≈40 essential minerals, vitamins, and other biochemicals), which are required for virtually all metabolic and developmental processes.

The leading dietary sources of energy in the Western world are abundant in carbohydrates and fats but deficient in micro-nutrients

(i.e., they are energy-dense and nutrient-poor).

Dr. David Heber of the UCLA Centre for Human Nutrition recently suggested consumers think of taking these basic four supplements as an integral part of their diet in addition to the four basic food groups.

A multivitamin,

Extra vitamin C,

Extra vitamin E,

Calcium

A theory that vitamin inadequacy is behind the rise in chronic diseases “makes sense… and it is almost certainly going to be right,” says Dr Bruce Ames, one of the world’s most quoted and published scientists.

So taking supplements sounds like a good idea right? Wrong!

The Big Supplement Scam Exposed

In my research I discovered the majority of health supplements on the market are not what they seem.

Nearly a third of all supplements found on the market, and many sold by major high street brands like Walmart and Walgreens, do not even contain the ingredients listed on the products.

Dangerous Fillers Causing Harmful Allergies

Worst yet they can contain dangerous fillers which can cause harmful allergies.

This was reported in a New York Times article, after 4 major high street brands were scrutinised by the FDA:

“Among the attorney general’s findings was a popular store brand of ginseng pills at Walgreens, promoted for “physical endurance and vitality,” that contained only powdered garlic and rice.

At Walmart, the authorities found that it’s ginkgo biloba, a Chinese plant promoted as a memory enhancer, contained little more than powdered radish, houseplants and wheat despite a claim on the label that the product was wheat and gluten-free.

Three out of six herbal products at Target ginkgo biloba,St. John’s wort and valerian root, a sleep aid tested negative for the herbs on their labels.

But they did contain powdered rice, beans, peas and wild carrots.

And at GNC, the agency said, it found pills with unlisted ingredients used as fillers, like powdered legumes, the class of plants that includes peanuts and soybeans, a hazard for people with allergies.”

If you can’t trust our medical establishment, our diet gurus and now you can’t even trust health supplement manufacturers; all of whom are supposed to have our best interests at heart…

Who can you trust?

Most importantly what do we actually nourish ourselves with on our road to healing if the food and the current supplements on the market are doing us no good?